pete williams reporting officials believe that the incident is over. pete, lets go back to you and the latest you're hearing from law enforcement officials. >> apparently the local authorities are in charge here. lapd, l.a. fire department taking the lead on this investigation. so the federal authorities are helping out. obviously tsa is involved because this happened near a screening checkpoint. we believe that one of the shooting victims was a tsa employee, a screener, we believe. everything we've indicated, heard from law enforcement people back here is it's over. it happened very quickly this person with what we're told some kind of rifle or long gun approached the security checkpoint. shots were fired. gunfire was exchanged. we know at least two people were shot. we don't know how many. initial reports back here say multiple victims, but that could be simply more than one equals two. so we don't know what the number is yet. we're waiting to hear that now. the information is flowing somewhat slowly back here to the folks we're talking to, andrea. >>

nbc's pete williams reporting that there were three people injured, including a tsa officer. it does not appear that anybody was killed. the gunman is reported to be in custody, which suggests the gunman is alive and suggests there is just one but we are continuing to monitor that and we'll keep you posted. this began in terminal three which includes virgin airways, as well as jetblue, allegiant and frontier. apparently the shooter walked up to security where they check your documents going into the security checkpoint and opened fire and again, that shooter appears to be at this point in custody. the white house says that the president has been briefed about the shooting at lax, that they will continue to stay in touch with the federal and local partners, lapd is leading the response and investigations. the white house says we urge citizens to listen to the authorities and follow directions from the first responders on site and that the president will continue to receive briefings throughout the day. air traffic suffice is to say is a mess. there is a ground stop now, flight

pete williams is working sources in washington. pete, what do we know right now about the shooter? >> not very much. they are trying to verify his identity. we've been told that he's an american citizen in his 20s. we don't know where he's come or where the gun came from. police have said it was an assault-type rifle. that's the term they used. we're told it's an ar-15 type semiautomatic rifle that he carried it in, took it out of the bag and open fire. now, we believe that the shooting victims were also employees of the transportation security administration, all tsa employees at this i.d. checkpoint where you go to show your driver's license and your boarding pass or ticket. we're told he did not have a ticket. and he just pulled the rifle out and began firing. we know that one tsa employee was killed. we believe that tlehree others were wounded. the gunman was shot. we believe the gunman is in critical condition at a medical center near the airport. the authorities did say at this news conference, just ended that seven patient in all were transported, that six are still in the h

pete williams is standing by. the tsa agents who are the first line, if you will, these are people who check our documents and i.d., they are not armed agents or tsa employees, right? >> you know, i don't know what the practice was at la airport. i can't say for certain. i don't believe they are. it happened at that checkpoint where -- there are three places where you encounter the security at the airport. the first is where you just sort of show someone who's oftentimes a government contractor, may not be a tsa official. you show them that you have in fact a boarding pass or ticket and allowed to pass along into the secure area. then you encounter the first tsa who looks at your documentation, driver's license or passport or whatever i.d. you have and checks it against your boarding pass or ticket. we're told that's where this happened that the gunman shot and killed one tsa employee there, wounded at least one other tsa employee, and some other person. we don't know whether that third person who was wounded was a

. >> nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams, joins me now with the latest on the investigation. pete, i understand we have learned breaking news with the suspect. what do you know? >> reporter: well, authorities from several different organizations have told us that the suspect's name is paul anthony ciancia. c-i-a-n-c-i-a. they say he is 23 years old, born in february of 1990. a u.s. citizen who is living in the l.a. area. and as for the motive -- we're a long way from knowing that for certain. there is some indication, we're told, that he had strong anti-government views. that's based on some written material that we're told he was carrying, that they found on him after he was shot by l.a. airport police. he is said to be in critical condition at the ucla medical. we believe that all of the people who were shot, all of the people he shot, were employees of the it tsa. one of whom was killed, three of whom were wounded, with varying degrees of severity of their injuries. but that he didn't shoot anyone else. one telling thing is what a witness said, who talked earlier today to

joining me now from washington, nbc justice correspondent pete williams. t does decide to take this up. >> reporter: then it will decide a question that it never decided before, which is does a corporation, does a company have religious freedom. the lower courts are divided on this. the main case we've all been watching has been brought by a company called hobby lobby. it has arts and crafts stores nationwide owned by a religious family in oklahoma which believes it would violate the religious freedom of the owners if they were required to provide birth control they considered tantamount to abortion. certainly individuals have religious freedom, but does a company have religious freedom? the lower courts have said in other cases, similar cases, for example, a men night woodworking company in pennsylvania, that corporations do not have religious freedom. if the court says that companies do, then obviously it would have implications for this contraceptive mandate in obama care but it might have broader implications as well that companies could say, well, we'r

>> pete williams in our d.c. newsroom tonight. pete, thanks. >>> overseas in afghanistan, the deal for what happens after u.s. combat troops leave next year is suddenly on very shaky ground tonight. afghanistan's president hamid karzai upping the ante now, making new demands in a meeting with national security adviser susan rice, saying he needs more concessions to let american troops stay in his country even on a noncombat basis. deal or no deal, the americans still on the ground are in a tough spot preparing to come home with so much work still ahead. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has our report tonight from forward operating base gamberi in eastern afghanistan. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this deal does seem to be in jeopardy. and for american troops on outposts like this one and others like it, it's personal. they and their families are trying to determine whether american forces will still have to deploy to this country in the future or whether the war in afghanistan will truly be o

we begin there tonight with our justice correspondent, pete williams, at the justice department for us tonight. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. and just to put this in perspective, what jpmorgan has agreed to pay is about three times what bp paid after the gulf oil spill. it was a scene repeated nationwide, people who thought they had achieved the american dream ending up with mortgages that cost far more than their homes were worth. like bridget an army veteran of iraq injured in iraq whose disability payments couldn't cover her mortgage. >> my payments were cut dramatically in half. but i still had the bills and responsibilities of an active duty salary but my salary was nowhere near that. >> reporter: taeds -- today the government imposed the stiffest punishment yet for the wall street manipulations that led to the crisis and the biggest economic downturn. $13 billion to be paid by the world's second biggest bank, jpmorgan chase. the bank and the companies it bought admitted that the problems contributed to the housing slump and recession. >> it had a direct im

let's bring in nbc justice correspondent pete williams. tell me about the case that they've taken up and what the focus of their review now will be, pete? >> reporter: the focus will be a simple question, does a for-profit company have religious freedom and, if so, can it refuse to follow the contraceptive part of the obama care, that says private insurance can companies must be provided that pays 100% of their contraceptive services. the court has agreed to take two cases, one involving a nationwide chain of arts and crafts stores called the hobby lobby owned by a religious family in oklahoma. they say requiring them to pr provide this contraceptive care for four types of contraception would amount to abortion, in their view, and violate their religious freedom. the second case is one from a e mennonite family that owns a woodworking company in pennsylvania and they make a similar claim. now the hobby lobby won in the court of appeals. the court of appeals said, yes, a for profit company does have religious freedom, but the mennonite compa

way 9:30 local time, 12:30 eastern time in terminal three of lax, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams citing multiple law enforcement sources says that one tsa employee was shot and killed, it apparently unfolded at the checkpoint going into security, the point in the security line where you show your documents. there are reports that the shooter was armed with a rifle. the suspect according to lax now says that the suspect is in custody, and the lapd does have a news conference scheduled for the bottom of this hour. air traffic as you might expect has been, is in havoc not only in los angeles but across the country on the east coast, there had been weather related delays. now there is a ground stop apparently still in effect so flights bound for l.a. if they had not taken off they are being held in the ground at their departure point although jane wells who is outside the airport says she has seen some flights taking off and some landing as they get this all under control, and the scene outside the airport as you can see as you look at live is still quite a bit of chaos, with heavy l

our story tonight from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: inside this texas courtroom, a dramatic end to an outrageous case of justice denied. ken anderson pleaded no contest to charges that when he was a prosecutor in 1987, he failed to disclose evidence that seriously undercut the case against michael morton. accused of murdering his wife christine who was beaten to death in bed. morton was released from prison two years ago when dna evidence proved he was innocent. >> i prayed for it, and i had faith it would arrive. >> reporter: prosecutors are required by law to share any evidence they collect that would be helpful to the defense. but in this case two critical things were withheld. witnesses reported seeing a man park a green van nearby and walk into the woods near the mortons' house. and michael morton's mother said his son heard a monster with a big mustache. the recent dna test also led to the real killer. app drifter named mark allen norwood convicted in march and also accused of killing another central texas woman debra baker a year after morton was sentenced

i want to go to nbc's pete williams in our washington newsroom. pete?>> we're told now one tsa official was killed during this incident, a second one was injured, we believe shot in the leg, taken to the hospital, and there are reports that there was a third person who was wounded but it's not clear to us whether that third person was someone who was, in fact, the gunman or whether it's another person at the airport, another passenger. in any event, several authorities tell us the gunman is in custody. we don't know anything further about who it is. they believe that person is the sole person involved in the shooting, but they're wondering if others were involved as well, so airport operations has been vastly reduced, lester. >> the president has been briefed on what's happening at the airport. the los angeles police department still the lead agency, but washington watching very carefully because it does involve an international airport where there has been threats in the past. there has been ground transportation in effect. car transportation has been

>> pete williams with the latest on what we know from our d.c. bureau. pete, thanks. >>> bill bratton is with us, former chief of the lapd and the nypd. these days a security consultant and nbc news analyst. sadly, it seems we only get to talk to you after another episode of gun violence. this is your former turf. a place you were charged with protecting. that ring of tsa, commissioner, does not have weapons traditionally. you don't think the answer will be to weaponize concentric circles as you work your way into the airport? >> there will probably be a call to do just that. i would advocate against that trying to train 50,000 people to handle firearms in a very contained situation. better to leave it so the highly trained police personnel such as those that went into action today. >> as we said, l.a.x. on a friday morning, 9:30, busy place. hard to name a time when l.a.x. isn't busy. the problem with running an airport, you've got to have the free flow of people. isn't that exactly what makes them increasingly fertile targets for random violence and org

joining me justice corporation pete williams. hey, pete, thanks for being here.et your broad take on this. what are the larger implications of the court's decision. what does this mean for other abortion legislation? >> well, in a technical way, the simple answer is it doesn't mean anything because the court didn't decide it. it decided not to decide it. the oklahoma supreme court found the state law there unconstitutional. it's a state law that restricted or state supreme court eliminated the two pill regime, are you for borings early in pregnancy. now the supreme court has decided not to hear it. earlier it said it would hear the indicates now that it knows oklahoma supreme court said it basically bans this, the supreme court said we're not going to hear that. i wouldn't think it's a good sign for advocates in other states. four other states have a similar law, arizona, north dakota, ohio and texas. we may have an abortion case at the supreme court but it has to do with what's going on in texas on the other issue, which is requiring abortion doctors have admitt

and joining us now from washington is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who has been tracking this supreme court case here. pete, put this in context for us. there was what they call a circuit split, different rulings in the lower courts. how does that affect our understanding fl the significance of the supreme court hearing this case? >> reporter: well, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion the court would take this case for two reasons. whenever the lower courts strike down part of a federal law, that makes it very important for the supreme court to hear the case. now the court today agreed to hear two cases, hobby lobby, in which the hobby lobby, the company, won the tenth circuit court of appeals said yes corporations do have and can exercise freedom of religion. and then another case, the third circuit said another company, which is in pennsylvania owned by a family of five menonites, the court ruled against them and said not only can the company assert religious religious freedom but they can't sue and claim damage because it's the corporation that has to pay for the

our justice correspondent pete williams will be here in a little while to give us an update and fresh report on all of that. but first, the obama care debate. the healthcare.gov was actually offline for repairs over the weekend. they said saturday the glitches are, quote, just the tip of the iceberg. this week, as you might have remembered, the president traveled to boston to compare the rough start of obama care to what he called the slow start of the massachusetts health care plan. but he also praised his 2012 opponent mitt romney, who in 2006, as governor of massachusetts, signed that state's health care reform legislation into law. >> i've always believed that when he was governor here in massachusetts, he did the right thing on health care. if it was hard doing it just in one state, it's harder doing it in all 50 states. >> that is proving to be the case. and the 2012 republican presidential nominee, former governor mitt romney joins me exclusively this morning. governor, it's good to see you. thank you for being here. >> thanks, david. good to see you. >> why do you reject the c

this according to nbc news and pete williams.cia and we do not know his condition. back to you. >> thank you for that, scott. we have a lot more on the l.a.x. shooting. and on the markets as well as we're just nearing the close of trade today. the closing countdown will be on the other side of this break. >> we'll come back with the dow up 86 points. we'll hear from security experts on whether it's possible to prevent incidents like this at any crowded public place. at a ford dealer with a little q and a for fiona. tell me fiona, who's having a big tire event? your ford dealer. who has 11 major brands to choose from? your ford dealer. who's offering a rebate? your ford dealer. who has the low price tire guarantee, affording peace of mind to anyone who might be in the market for a new set of tires? your ford dealer. i'm beginning to sense a pattern. get up to $140 in mail-in rebates when you buy four select tires with the ford service credit card. where'd you get that sweater vest? your ford dealer. maestro of project management.

nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us with more. pete, the comparisons to citizens united. >> reporter: rig >> in which the supreme court said that private corporations for profit corporations do have free speech rights when it comes to running campaign ads, now the court has to decide a different question, do the same companies have a freedom of religion. the lower courts are split on this. the tenth circuit court of appeals said yes, it ruled in favor of a company called hobby lobby, owned by a religious family in oklahoma. they say providing con tra septemberive care would violate their religious freedom because it would constitute abortion. other courts of appeals have said no and said the individual family members ruling in the case of one of the supreme court took it, a woodworking company in pennsylvania owned by a family of men nights. the supreme court said the individuals can't claim who own the company can't tell their religious freedoms are violated because it's the corporation that has to pay the cost of the health care

with me is pete williams. pete, what are you hearing?headquarters in various agencies in washington. what we do know they told us they are aware at least one shot was fired at terminal 3 at lax. an employee was wounded, we believe, in the leg. that's the initial impression we get back here. we don't know whether other shots are fired. we don't know whether there's still an active shooter situation there. apparently the police are leading this responsibility. it's still rapidly unfolding and chaotic. there's a picture back here of exactly what has happened, who the person with the gun was, why this shooting happened, what's going on. we're still waiting to get those details. >> pete, if our research is correct, this is not the first time there had been a shooting at lax. the first time in 2002. do you know anything about that? >> yes. there had been shootings at lax before. one notorious one at the ticket counter. if what we hear is correct, this is further into the airport, at or beyond the security checkpoint. that would be unusual. you

. >> nbc's pete williams was in court and he joins us now from our washington bureau. pete, i just want to point out that the congressman was one of the lawmakers who voted for drug testing for food stamp recipients so i believe that was the type of connection that nancy pelosi was trying to make there. but you were in the courtroom. explain how this all went down. >> well, he did plead guilty today and he got the same sentence that most defendants get for a first offense. he got a year's probation, so that means if there are no further violation, this will be removed from his record after a year's time. that's the normal thing that happened here. the house speaker, john boehner, says what happens next is up to congressman radel, his family and his constituents. now, in court today mr. radel said he's already started outpatient drug treatment and his lawyer said he wants to continue it with inpatient treatment in florida, that he's seeking professional help. he referred to that in a statement that his office issued last night. let me read a portion of that statement to

pete williams is in our washington bureau. pete, good morning.in terms of the weapons, the ammunition. >> first of all, in terms of his condition, they were saying yesterday he was shot in the chest and that he was in critical condition. we have not many heard of an update of his condition at this point. he had what they described as an assault-type rifle, like an ar-15. he had over 100 yard in five magazines. it could be as many as 150 rounds of ammunition that he took with him to the airport. he's 23. originally from new jersey. they say he had at least a page of radical anti-government material, a diatribe against the federal government in particular, and tsa in particular. calling tsa employees "pigs" and say they were violating his civil rights. police in pennsville, new jersey said he sent his brother a text message early friday in which he said he was not going to be alive much longer. police have questioned members of his family in new jersey. ciancia's father said he talked to his son last week, who complained about the state of the econ

. >>> pete williams has more on the investigation into the suspect and also a possible motive. he's with us from washington. pete, what can you tell us? >> i can tell you, erica, that federal officials are going through this person's background hoping to find out what led him to take a rifle and over 100 rounds of ammunition to the airport. they say paul anthony ciancia, age 23, originally from new jersey, was carrying some radical antigovernment written material they describe as harshly critical of the federal government in general and tsa in particular and in the airport they say he was targeting tsa employees. police in pennsville, new jersey, where the family lives there he sent his younger brother a text message saying he wouldn't be alive much longer. police and the fbi have questioned members of his family in new jersey. ciancia's father tells us he talked to him last week complaining of the economy and not having a job and a roommate in los angeles says all of this comes as a shock. >> never had anger or anything in him. when he was here, nothing. i didn't have any issue

nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now to explain. pete, is this about ru-486 and like drugs? >> it is. it's about a two-pill system for inducing a medicinal as opposed to surgical abortion early in a pregnancy. it involves ru-486 and one other pill. what several states have done is to say if you're going to use these pills, doctors have to abide by the original fda labeling. none of the doctors who prescribe this system were using the fda labeling because they said it required too much medication. it required doctor visits that weren't necessary and it would have vastly restricted it. the oklahoma supreme court struck the law down saying it was unconstitutional. oklahoma appealed to the supreme court and in the spring, the court agreed to hear the case, but it said we're not quite certain what this law means. oklahoma supreme court please define it for us. last week the answer to that homework assignment came. the oklahoma supreme court said it essentially banned medicinal abortions in the state. so today the supreme court removed the

joining me msnbc correspondent pete williams. what are we learning?est on this alleged gunman? >> this is not where one of those investigations where every 10 minutes brings some other revelation. this is a long slow go to try to figure out the answer to the key question, which is why did he do it. there's nothing that his friends or roommates say this they thought he was an adherent to this extremist anti-government view expressed in this handwritten later, which is a general rant of the usual stuff about the federal reserve and federal government and the currencies and one world order and all of that. for some reason a specific attack on the tsa which he said was vilding his constitutional rights. he says in the letter if the tsa is going to treat all americans as potential terrorists it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. but what drove him to that, that's a question they are trying to answer. it does appear that he, himself, will not be able to shed much light on that. he was severely injured in the shooting. he was shot in the face. according to

. >> pete williams starting us off at the supreme court tonight. thanks. >>> now we turn to this growing scandal involving bullying ant nfl. a lot of people have been slow to come around on the idea. reluctant to believe that something like bullying could exist in something designed to be a highly violent, testosterone fueled world inside pro football. and opinions are widely varies on this. a special counsel has been appointed to investigate. our report tonight from nbc's carrie sanders in south florida. >> reporter: practice on the gridiron. but it's ha happened off the field that has the team on defense. today the south florida sun sent nal says that incognito was asked to toughen up martin. >> i believe in the men in our locker room and the coaching staff. if there is anything that needs to be corrected, we will take all necessary measures to fix it to ensure that this doesn't happen again. >> reporter: the nfl is now conducting an investigation into allegations of bullying in the dolphins' locker room. espn has said sources have heard voice ma

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nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is live for us outside the supreme court for us this morning. pete, what did we hear this morning? >> reporter: this is the town of greece, which is a suburb of rochester, new york. a lower court said that the problem is that the town of greece prayers were almost exclusively christian and that was challenged by two residents of the town, one is jewish and one atheist. and they said that they in essence felt compelled to pray. now, the problem is for the supreme court, right across the street here, the congress has opened every session throughout our entire history with a prayer from a paid chaplain. 30 years ago, the supreme court said there's nothing wrong with that in legislatures. the question is, is there something different about these local meetings, where somebody is basically asking for something from the town and told beforehand that they have to join in a prayer that they may disagree with, that they're not going to sit down an not take the prayer because that might offend the very people they're asking for something. here is a hypot

nbc's pete williams spoke to attorney general eric holder. he joins us with details.did you find out? >> reporter: a couple things about this. first of all the justice department says this isn't just for conduct by bear stearns and washington mutual, the two banks jpmorgan bought. in the court documents filed today just now, the justice department also says jpmorgan was doing the same thing, overpromising what was in these packages of home mortgage loans that were then sold as securities. the jpmorgan knew well, executives knew, there were a lot of worthless loans in there. he says this $13 billion hit, even though today doesn't have any criminal charges, is still a big hit on the company. here's what he said. >> this was something that was hard fought. it was something that we decided in terms of the amount had to be met, otherwise we could have simply filed our lawsuit. this was not simply something that jpmorgan simply signed a check and smilingly said, this is a good deal for us. this inflicts pain on that institution. >> reporter: now, the subject of whether crim

nbc justice correspondent pete williams. thank you, sir, appreciate it. >>> new details are coming this morning involving the man police say went on a shooting rampage inside los angeles international airport on friday. the suspect, paul ciancia is hospitalized and in critical condition. he's been unresponsive because of his current medical condition, but investigators say they're still learning more about why he allegedly killed a tsa agent and wounded two others. miguel almaguer is live outside l.a.x. with the details on this. miguel, good morning. >> reporter: thomas, good morning. according to a federal criminal complaint, we do know more about the alleged shooter's motive. fbi investigators say that he left behind a one-page letter, what they call -- also has been called a manifesto in which he said he was specifically targeting tsa agents. it didn't matter whether they were black, white, brown or yellow. apparently that was written inside this manifesto. he seemed to target these individuals because they worked for the

joining me now, pete williams. i keep wanting to say corporations are people too.ney. that's the question, right? this. >> one of the questions. there was a law passed by congress in 1993. we're not really talking about the freedom of le rely onclause in the first amendment but a law passed by congress in '93 called the religious freedom restoration act and it said that persons can assert a religious objection to federal laws. the question here is hobby lobby a person, the tenth circuit said yes, because corporations get lots of personal rights. the statutes are divided on this. the supreme court has never decided this question. and while it's certainly interesting to look at citizens united, i don't think that gets you all the way there. here's the problem. if the supreme court says, as it might, that a company like hobby lobby can assert a religious freedom claim, what's to keep any company from saying we don't want to serve joos, we don't want to hire -- >> that's the slippery slope here. >> right. that's what the supreme court has to be very concerned about. no

joining me now is nbc's justice correspondent pete williams, who is live at the supreme court. pete, good afternoon to you. what is the latest from the supreme court, and based on what you heard today, is there any indication the court is ready to change on this? >> reporter: well, the supreme court, based on today's argument, is certainly not going to say that local government cannot open its meetings with a prayer. you just played a little bit of what happens in congress across the street here. that was a big point of argument today, that this has been something that the founding fathers approved of. there have been paid chaplains since the first session of congress. 30 years ago the supreme court ruled that elective prayer is okay. but what two women who are suing over the town of greece's practice say, their prayers are almost exclusively christian. that was in essence government endorsement of a single faith. their lawyer said it's also different in a small town council when you're there asking for a zoning approval or asking for some policy change. you're there basically a

he was reported, according to nbc's pete williams to be carrying anti-government materials, which suggests that might be a possible motive, but we do not know. our jane wells on the ground outside lax says that air traffic is starting to return to normal, as law enforcement clears all terminals, because all terminals were evacuated in this incident. that began about shortly before 9:30 this morning, pacific time. some flights now returning, as we can see the map beginning to fill up with flights, coming back. but still, a nationwide ground stop in effect. so flights that were bound for los angeles and had not left yet are being held on the ground. we of course are continuing to follow the story, as it develops, we will keep you posted. >> live from the nasdaq markets in new york city's times square. this is fast money. america's post market show. i'm melissa lee let's get to our top story, the final stretch, a record run for stocks this year. and on october for the books, year to date the dow up 19%. the s & p 500 up 24%. but with new highs after new highs are there underlying warning sign

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