this was not robbery or random act. this investigation is ongoing. so far no arrests have been made. reporting live, rob roblin, wbal-tv 11 news. >> here is ann curry with a look at what is coming up next on the "today" show. >> are your tax is about to go up? we will talk about that and the state of the gop presidential race with michele bachmann this morning. a florida doctor funding a legal bill -- he calls for his guardian angel. she will open up about the relationship. the best last-minute holiday shopping deals, plus one family's christmas card tradition that has turned them into internet sensations. those stories and it holiday performance from tony bennett when we get started here on "today." >> 46 degrees on tv hill. >> we will come back and check the weather and traffic together before you head out to start your day. >> it has been a pretty decent weeks of war on the roads. >> it will get lighter as folks take off for work. have one problem in essex. major roadways are looking good. six minutes between the bel

saying it was not a random act of violence. police have identified the victim. it is 19-year-old rodney pridget. he was shot outside the mall. a suspect and the victim were seen outside the mall. there was a suspect talking with or some kind of reaction with the victim inside the mall. police say this was not a random act, that pridget was an intended target. >> we know now based on the investigation so far that this absolutely was not a random act of violence. this was absolutely not a robbery. >> officials at the mall have released a statement saying they are working with investigators on this case and that the security of the shoppers and employees are the top concerns every day, not just when incidents like this occur. this investigation is occuon going and no arrests have been made. >> police identified a man shot by an officer in dundalk. he faces several charges including attempted murder. police say he entered a home wearing a mask and carrying a gun. he robbed a woman inside the home and was shot by police after he ref

victim. >> this was not a random act of violence. this was absolutely not a robbery. >> pridget was shot dead on a sidewalk outside the mall. they suggest some of -- some acquaintance of his. >> we know the victim and the suspect were in the mall prior to the shooting. >> any witnesses, videos that there was any kind of altercation? >> i cannot answer that at this time. >> the result of the fatal shooting of a garage in 2005, cameras. they will not describe what the cameras captured or talk about motive. >> this time of year, it is important to tell our citizens they are safe when they come to our shopping centers and malls. we have done a lot to protect them with private security, and i thought it was important to make this statement at this point in time. >> i think i will continue my same patterns. >> the towson town jon general manager issued a statement this afternoon that says, in part -- the towson town manager -- the towson town mall general manager issued a statement this afternoon that says, in part -- that again from the g

police believe the death was not random. rob roblin is live with a closer look at the investigation. >> extra security has been put in place around the mall and that extra security was in place went 19-year-old rodney pridget was murdered. police are trying to reassure shoppers that this was not a random shooting. shoppers leaving at towson town center described hearing a string of rapid gunfire. >> five or six gunshots all at once. and then two or three more gunshots. >> 19-year-old rodney pridget lay dead. investigators say they are still piecing together a lot of details. they say that pridget was the intended target. >> we know now based on the investigation so far that this absolutely was not a random act of violence. this was absolutely not a robbery. >> according to police, pridget and the suspect were both inside the mall. police are not saying if they appeared to be arguing or in some kind of altercation on the tape. >> we are looking at technology that was deployed inside and required by county code on the outside.

random acts of kindness during this season of giving. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. at a ceremony in baghdad today, the americans lowered the flag and it was a quiet ending to a war that went bad not long after its spectacular start. this ends close to nine years of warfare and the u.s. exit from iraq comes after a high cost. nearly 4,500 american troops dead, more than 32,000 wounded. on the iraqi side, eimates e, begin at 150,000 dead. the cost in dollars to the u.s., around 2k4r8z$800 billion. some estimates put that at a trillion. please remember every american who served there volunteered for duty while their families sacrificed greatly here at home. and tonight, here's what it looks like to wait for a ride home, and not just any ride. a few members of bravo 224 of the 25th of virginia national guard unit en route to ft. hood, texas. they all need a ride out of camp virginia in kuwait tonight. they will be airborne while most americans are asleep. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in

. >>> during the holidays, many of us worry about random creams -- crimes. how baltimore police are working to prevent incidents from happening. >>> holiday decorations can be pretty but can be dapping for your family. >>> and the right track when it comes to education. j >>> you only get one crack at a good education. the ymca opened its first educational center. >> reporter: here at the y journey's educational center in towson, children are settling in to their new surroundings. they opened it to better serve children and their families. >> we know that kids who have a very well designed, very caring early childhood experience are going to do well in school. they will be ready in school. we think it's our obligation. >> reporter: the new sthrs has six -- center has six classrooms and it offers more space to educate youngsters. >> this is not sitting kids in chairs and drilling them. this is giving them opportunities and hands-on experiences so they learn by doing. >> reporter: research shows kids develop most rapidly from zero to five. the early childhood

police do not believe this was a random attack. any information on the case, you are asked to call the wind -- westminster police department. a $500 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the attackers. >> pepper spray was used on the effect on. these not only doused the victim with the chemical but they still has close. barry simms is live with more on this investigation. >> police are calling this a very strange case. there are looking for three men who had a brief conversation with the victim and then attacked him. >> i would classify it as an unusual type of robbery being that his clothes were taken during the robbery. we also trying to gather more fax. >> a happen at a bus stop where anne arundel county police say three men approached the pasadena man while he was waiting for a boss. one member of the trio ask a question and the victim was attacked with pepper spray. >> one suspect asked if he had any drugs. he indicated he did not. that is what the other two suspects got involved. >> the other tw

police are trying to reassure shoppers that this was not a random shooting. shoppers leading thousand town center monday night described hearing a string of rapid gunfire. >> 5 or 6 gunshot at once. then there was a pause of two or three seconds and then there were three more gunshots. >> in the and, rodney lay dead on the sidewalk just outside of the mall. baltimore county investigators say they are still piecing together a lot of details. but they are adamant that he was the victim of a target. >> we know now, based on the investigation so far, that this absolutely was not a random act of violence. this was absolutely not a robbery. >> according to police, the victim and the suspect were inside the mall before the shooting. the mall has an intricate video surveillance system, but the police do not say if they were arguing or if there was an altercation on the tape. >> we're looking at the technology that was deployed inside and required by county code on the outside. at this time, we are following up on all leads and looking at the circumstances that you wo

so far that this absolutely was not a random act of violence. this was absolutely not a robbery. >> police do have a suspect in this case, no arrests have been made. rob roblin, wbal-tv 11 news. >> police have identified the man shot by an officer in dundalk. he faces several charges including attempted murder. investigators say he entered a home wearing a mask and carrying a gun. he robbed a woman and was shot by police after he refused to drop his weapon. he is now being held without bail at the baltimore detention center. >> a trial date has been set for a woman charged with murdering another. bail was set at $350,000 and if convicted, could face a life sentence. eight landmark bullying trial -- a landmark bullying trial. the boy's parents claimed their son was severely bullied and that school officials did nothing to stop the attack. officials said the never received documentation from the family that the student was being bullied. >> the hearing against private bradley manning. he is accused of passing massive amounts of data to wikileaks.

we do not believe this was a random incident. >> it's going to be probably more safe than it was before. >> reporter: this is a second murder at towson town center since 2005 when teacher william basset was gunned down. violence has erupted other malls two. >> you think you're safe in towson but you're not. you're not safe anywhere. >> reporter: in towson retailers hopes what appears to be random violence won't deter customers. we went to several previous addresses of the victim. at one house, told us he had recently gotten out of foster care. there are lots of police inside the mall. you will definitely see them if you come here tonight. live in towson, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >>> wjz will stay on the story with some updates at wjz.com and tonight at 11:00. >>> new information about the armed suspect who allegedly broke into a baltimore county home and ended up being shot by police. the suspect is identified as 27- year-old christopher bernard of randalls town. police say he broke into a home on wofford drive. he was allegedly wearing a ski mask carrying a gun. a neighbored

police do not believe it was a random attack. anyone with information is asked to call the westminster police department. there is a $500 reward for any leads to the rest of the victim -- of the attacker. >> police say the shooting happened in the 1800 block of maryland avenue where a 26-year- old man was found suffering from gunshot wounds. the two other victims are found walking into a hospital for treatment. we are learning more about the indefinite layoffs that r.g. steel plant. they told state officials on friday about the furlough. they estimate as many as 2000 workers to be furloughed. the company has told that work would restart in the first quarter of next year. more bad news and maryland as the state releases new data for assessed homes. 91% of residential properties dropped in bali. >> out of about 750,000 homes that were assessed, the drop of about 70.1% when they came to their value. this is not all bad news, especially for folks whose homes are under water. >> residential property values have declined in maryland wi

. >> police say the deadly shooting last night at towson town center was not an act of random violence. they have identified the victim as 19-year-old rodney pridget, who was shot dead on the sidewalk outside the mall. they believe that pridget was targeted somehow, and they are trying to develop leads and find out a motive. and the case against an army intelligence analysts -- analyst. today, a former hacker was called to testify. they say that the confession of bradley manning compelled him to alert authorities. he is accused of giving a massive treasure trove of classified information to the wikileaks web site. they are trying to determine whether he should be court- martialed. they are saying that a private should never have had access to classified materials and that security was in explicitly -- in explicitly -- inexplicably lax. and ron smith has died of pancreatic cancer, and we will have more on the news at 6:00. thousands of fans left in the dark. the details just ahead when we cover the nation. >> coming up at 6:00, we will have the latest in a trial. [ child ] it's so cool!

yeah, but it's a random shooting spree. doesn't it make sense that he'd choose a random path?ntuitively, yes, but, well, mathematically, no. mathematicians apply a path minimization to analyze this kind of predator-prey dynamic. what exactly is that? the snake pursues the mouse. mouse runs, the snake is relentless and tracks every step. and when it runs into obstacles, it finds the quickest, most economical way around them. now using path minimization, we can predict the snake's path because the snake only has one thing on its mind-- finding the most efficient point a to point b between it and its dinner. so shooter number three is just a lousy snake, or what? shooter number three's route was definitely not determined by path minimization. so... what then? maybe this. now we know that the school uses rfid chip technology to take attendance; tells teachers when students are in class and when they're absent. keeps track of students using a pda. right. names and locations of the students show up on the screen. the dmg kids, we know they have the capability to break into the schoo

police are saying it was not a random act. rodney was shot and killed in the parking lot outside nordstrom. police are not giving out a lot of details they are saying they have several leads that could lead to an arrest. county police say the malls are safe and optimistic they will have the case cleared. >> it's absolutely was not a random act of violence. this was absolutely not a robbery. we have hard work detectives and field personnel running out lead at this point in time. >> security is always stepped up especially during the holidays and this year is no exception. they say more officers are out patrolling the roads this time year. >>> and in dundalk police identified a man shot by police. he was shot and is now charged with first -- with attempted first-degree murder. police found him with a gun at a home and were called in for reports of an armed robbery. one of the officers who responded said he pointed a gun at him and the officer returned fire. >>> the cumberland time news reports a woman was in court tuesday when t

. >>> a gunman firing shots at people at random on the streets of hollywood. >> oh my god. are you all right? >> it's part of the video. the man opening fire at the intersection of hollywood and vine this morning. witnesses say he just drew a gun, walked up the middle of the street and shot at everyone driving by. one driver was hit and that person is in critical condition tonight. >>> the dude starts walking up the street and at this point, he is just picking people at random. he's like bam, and he walks past a mercedes and shoots the guy in the mercedes. >> he put the gun right up to this window. why he didn't pull the trigger, i don't know. >> a police showed up and shot and killed that gunman. he has not been identified. investigators have not figured out his motive. >>> a contra costa county middle school is under fire for having sex with a student. a teacher at the middle school in clayton. police say he confessed to a sexual relationship with a victim. he teaches math and science. according to the charges, the victim is under 16 years old. >>> and police have arreste

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a gunman firing shouteds at people at random in hollywood. >> oh my god, are you all right? >> that's video of the man opening fire at hollywood and vine this morning. witnesses say he drew a gun, walked up the middle of the street and simply shot at anything driving by. one driver was hit and is in critical condition tonight. >> the dude starts walking up the street and at this point, he is picking people at random out of the crowd. he's like, bam, bam, and he walks past a mercedes. >> this guy comes running across the street and put the gun right up to this window. why he didn't pull the trigger, i don't know. >> police showed up, they shot and killed that gunman. he has not been identified and investigators have not figured out why he did it. >> a contra cost tay county middle schoolteacher is under arrest for having sex with a student. he is a teacher in clayton. police say that he confessed to a sexual relationship with a victim. he was arrested at the school where he teaches math and science. according to the charges, the victim is under 16 years old. >>> police have a

detectives don't believe the robbery was random. >>> the murder trial of a university student will start at the end of april. the times news report that the 23-year-old was in court today. she is a accused of stabbing 19- year-old courtney mccoy last month outside a party. a judge set the trial date for april 30th and ordered her held on $350,000 bond. she said that someone else killed mccoy. if convicted she could get life. mccoy was from baltimore. >> in weather, today it's a cloudy situation. today and this evening. the chance for rain has stayed slim today and tonight and most of the rain we have tracked has been well north into -- central and northern pennsylvania. temperatures running mild in the mid to 40s to near 50s. cooler on the lower eastern shore. 39 easton, and 43 at dover air force base. through the day, chances for rain going up. drizzle toward morning. better chances for showers in the afternoon as we push near 60. we will look to the first day of winter on thursday and the next storm for the holiday weekend. >> thank you. it's sun down tonight jewish families round the

reporter: for now this family says there is little resolution. >> i don't know, because it's like random. >> reporter: so far, no arrests have been made. authorities are offering up to $25,000 in reward money for any information in the incident. live in oakland tonight, nbc bay area news. >>> the republican presidential debate in iowa took unexpected turns. former house speaker newt gingrich has emerged as the leader in national and iowa state polls. and he had to answer the awkward question of whether marital infidelity should be a factor for voters. he responded he thought it was an important issue and acknowledged he has made a mistakes. also perhaps a mistake by mitt romney. it happened after rick perry accused romney of supporting a federal individual health care mandate. romney said he never supported the federal mandate then he made a bet with perry that perry was wrong. the amount rated eyebrows. >> it was true then -- >> no, no. >> it's true now. >> i'll tell you what. 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet. >> i'm not in the betting business. >> campaign officials for gingrich and perry bot

it is random. a lot of people who aren't doing anything wrong have to put up with the nonsense all the time. >> that leads me to my next question, kurt, which is always good. do you think the tsa is doing this? isn't claiming you have roving teams doing random checks the same as having them? >> it is time to bring these people into our homes so they can make sure everything is okay while we transport ourselves to the bathroom. >> what they should do is use the $24 million and hire a bunch of retired israeli guys. they have a great record of stopping in country tourist attacks and they don't have to pat-down anybody. >> that's actually really good. >> my question was innain so don't worry about it. as a comic, you probably travel a lot, and you probably have to get out of cities quickly before people demand refunds. does the free security make it more -- does it make it more difficult for you to make it a quick get away? >> i do spend most of my travel time in places other than airports, bus station

police do not believe this was a random robbery. they think the victim was targeted by someone she knows. in haymarket, virginia, i'm chris gordon, news 4. >>> it's chilly out there now but it's been unusually warm for christmas. at least it seems that way to me, chuck. there's cold weather coming, huh? >> you are correct. temperatures were well above average for the christmas holiday. we are on pace to all-time warmest december on record here in washington. temperatures have just never really been able to get cold and stay cold for a long period of time. 44 degrees in washington with a very light breeze out of the north at 3 miles per hour. if you spend time outside today in the sunshine, you had to face a stiff northwesterly breeze. there's more wind coming our way as we get close to wednesday and wednesday afternoon. be ready for that. between now and then, clear skies for monday evening. clouds are headed back in. no rain in the immediate vicinity. the rain drops are inching into eastern tennessee and northern georgia. more than

. >> officers also keep things under control by conducting surprise shakedowns, random searches for hiddenaband. >> i found a knife. in this jacket on the floor up on the head of the bed. i would say 80% of them can put their hands on a knife within a minute. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. you don't need -- you ain't gotta be sharp. it just gotta have a point. put you a handle on it and do what you need to do. >> one of holman's most notorious inmates, bobby gilbert, is serving multiple sentences for crimes committed inside prison. >> i'm serving a life without parole sentence, two life sentences, two 99-year sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence and a 10-year sentence. all together. >> gilbert has attacked several prisoners and stabbed one man to death at another prison during an argument. >> everybody wants to talk about, you know, i killed somebody over a carton of cigarettes. it's not a carton of cigarettes. that may be the catalyst that leads to something, but if somebody owes me a soda pop, and they come to me and say, "hey man, i

but to random and i think like a bad actors can use them that way.was to julia angwin is the senior technology editor for "the wall street journal." you can read her reporting in teams reporting on line. think for below the communicators. >> thank you. nellis book tv tom brokaw former managing editor and anchor of nbc nightly news with tom brokaw. he presents his thoughts on the current state of american society and politics. this is about in an hour and 20 minutes. >> good evening. and director from the public library as all of you know. clinical left the library is simply to make the lions roar to make a heavy institution with it and to make it dance. i would like to thank tonight's sponsor. they are a proud sponsor of the new york public library and have been from the new york public library for some years noted the are also members of the new york public library lawyers for the committee a firm which ended in 1924 and also forward thinking approaches and solutions to such a major parcorporate energy and environmental financial-services, real-esta

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this is an idea that john meacham, former "newsweek" editor, now at random house, brought to us. we really liked the idea because as mike allen's editor, i've always had a degree of frustration that he knows so much. there's so much information rattling around in his head health care reform and in his notebook. >> he could write it every day for "politico." but not in a form like this -- >> it's the nature of the business and the rush of events. you well appreciate, howard. you often don't have the time to step back and make a great story out of this. >> it's always been -- >> we've got -- really mike allen is a classic new media reporter. knows everybody, seems to know everything, reports in real time. evan thomas spent a career at "newsweek" writing long form narratives. >> this week's projects used to come out after the election. this is the tradition that goes back to the teddy white books, and mark halpern with game change. are you trying to preempt game change before the game is over? >> we're not trying to preempt game change but tell an interesting story in real time, in

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often fate comes with an accident a random event shaped the destinies of both. i'll tell you a story. there's a huge cycle in the sixty's one morning after the cycle. stranded on the shore. it was washed down there on thousands of people came to take a look at it and they wondered could there be a ghost or devil in there. they decided to dismantle and recycle it. they started to strip the ship with tools this is how we started breaking ships in bangladesh. now about twenty thousand people work at over twenty sites. the ships that came here to many people from starving the ships. that's why i love the sea. but so many people have died. for the furniture please come in. and. two weeks later. auction is rushing to p.h.p. forty five. everything from a generator to dishes. twenty four thousand dollars today. nothing is wasted here. without these work as hundreds of huge old vessels would have sunk into the ocean like the titanic. lead ship breaking hundreds of recycle shops that often stretch for over two kilometers on both sides of the road it is in a way a huge rec

to do even more random checkpoints all across the nation so why is the t.s.a. trampling on the rights of americans to be presumed innocent for just wanting to get on a bus train or plane here to offer his take is john whitehead attorney and founder of the rutherford institute john welcome thank you jon i'm i'm about as left as you can get i call myself a democratic socialist you and your organization about as far right wing as one can get from defending cross burning to funny one of the sex lawsuits against president bill clinton yet you really moves so to civil liberties i understood it or i understand i didn't mean that as a such as a slam. if it was my apologies yet your opposed to these invasions of our civil liberties that were put into place largely by george w. bush and are regularly founded on g.o.p. t.v.'s fox news has our government steps oh far over the line when it comes to the fourth member privacy rights issues that the outrage against this is totally trans partisan. oh yeah i think so i believe in the bill rights and that's the key here is how fa

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for example random house and politico are partnering on a series of election oriented titles. the first one just came out and i believe there will be three more before november of 2012. there are also other partnerships that are forming or about to be formed along those lines as well so will it change the political nonfiction landscape where especially because it's so easy to just get news on line and analysis on mine, that how will we think about how a book is packaged do we want and co-coulter are other pundits to impart what they feel they need to say in book format or are they better served in an electronic context? it remains to be seen but it will be something i'm certainly watching out for. >> host: speaking of political books, coming out is pulitzer prize-winning "washington post" rice winner david merritt x.' book on barack obama, barack obama, the story, it's called. what have you heard about this? >> guest: well, i believe this has been in the works for at least a couple of years. i mean as with any book about any major political figure like the sitting president it