starts now with a breaking news alert
we will continue to follow the breaking
news out of texas governor greg abbott
confirming 14 students and a teacher
have died in a shooting at an elementary
school rob elementary in uvalde texas
about 85 miles west of san antonio
officials say the school for second
third and fourth graders was just two
days away from the end of the school
year the accused shooter has been
identified as 18-year-old salvador ramos
who has also died it's believed he was
shot by responding officers
it's believed that he abandoned his
vehicle and entered into
the rob elementary school in uvalde with
a handgun and he may have also had a
rifle but that is not yet confirmed
according to my most recent report
he shot and killed
horrifically incomprehensibly
14
students
and killed a teacher
two responding officers were also shot
their injuries not believed to be
serious president biden has been briefed
about the situation he's expected to
address the nation around 8 15 tonight
he's returning to the white house after
his trip to asia so much more on the
latest developments from uvalde ahead
here at 6 30 when we hand things back
over to nbc nightly news and should
there be any breaking developments here
over this next 30 minutes of news you'll
hear them right here the other news that
we're following here back at home
attorneys for james and jennifer crumbly
are asking the judge in their case to
move the case out of town this filing
lists several reasons they believe that
the trial needs to be moved because of a
tainted jury pool and it covers
everything from media coverage of the
shooting to the community's reaction to
it jason colthorpe is live in the
newsroom tonight jason you've had a
chance to go through it in detail here i
have kim and the defense is arguing that
the widespread number of people who were
impacted by the shooting simply taints
the jury pool but specifically they say
the prosecutor herself karen mcdonald
has also contributed to this
making it impossible for the crumblies
to get a fair trial
the four-page motion states although
ethan crumley committed the shooting mr
and mrs crumbly are receiving far worse
treatment in the court of public opinion
than the actual shooter attorney shannon
smith and marielle layman single out
oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald
saying she isn't complying with the
michigan rules of professional conduct
with her quote media tour of interviews
and press conferences and through
evidence that the public has seen which
will likely be deemed inadmissible at
trial the defense argues it's impossible
to unring the bell here and it wants to
move the trial to another county or at
least have jurors from another county
brought in
mcdonald responded today saying it's
important for her office to be
transparent my office will not be
distracted by motions that are legally
and factually deficient and we will be
filing appropriate written responses
with the court mcdonnell wrote in a
statement our trial team has never and
will never mislead the court or the
public we intend to prove the
allegations we've made against the
crumblies beyond a reasonable doubt at
trial
and going back just a bit there the
defense disputes the gun ethan crumley
used was unlocked and he had free access
to it they say that's something that's
been made to be a fact but they dispute
that it's also been stated so much that
everyone believes it according to the
defense
this motion by the way is scheduled to
be heard by judge matthews on june 27th
guys back to you yeah so a month or so
to go before we get to the next
development in that now let's move to
new developments in the petition
signature scandal that has rocked the
michigan governor's race tonight james
craig is asking michigan's attorney
general dana nessel to step in and
investigate what he believes is a
planned effort to keep him off the
ballot that comes after the state says
only 10 thousand of the 21 thousand
signatures his campaign submitted were
actually valid sean lay following this
story for us he's more i got more on
what the a.g has to say about it a
massive discrepancy here i think sean
absolutely let's get right to that when
you mention candidate james craig he
tells me late this afternoon he was
huddling with his attorneys all
afternoon and he did put out a statement
we'll get to more of that statement in a
moment we also mentioned a.g attorney
general dana nessl she says her office
will likely be asked to launch a
criminal investigation into all of this
what i am seeing and what we have been
made aware of is you know what seems to
be fraud on a pretty epic scale fraud
that attorney general dana nessel
expects to come to her office for a
criminal investigation ballot signature
fraud set to blow up gop gubernatorial
campaigns including the campaign of
former detroit police chief james craig
many of the candidates used the same
firm to collect ballot signatures needed
to appear on the gop primary ballot the
board of elections says thousands of
those signatures are simply forged by
the people paid to collect the
signatures we will likely be
investigating at least some of those
cases i can't predict how many right now
one gop hopeful candidate mike brown who
used the same signature collection
people dropped out today saying quote i
cannot and will not be associated with
this activity candidate perry johnson
and candidate james craig are vowing to
fight after thousands of bad signatures
were turned in on their behalf the
former chief says he is a victim of this
fraud i'm a fighter
i'm not going to roll over and play dead
and you know what
it's not just about me
it really is about fighting for
the folks that believed in me
let's get to more that james craig's
statement released late today he says it
is clear now that our campaign along
with several others have been defrauded
by these criminals whether for political
or monetary gain these individuals must
be held accountable for their actions
what's next in all this a big showdown
or a big meeting on thursday we should
say the michigan board of canvassers
they meet thursday whether to decide to
remove these candidates from the ballot
we're live tonight sean lay local four
back to you
fema crews are going to be on the ground
in gaylord tomorrow to try to assess
damage that is very widespread and for
one family the help just can't come soon
enough as our nick monticelli is about
to show you friday's tornado managed to
hit the same family in two different
locations
welcome to a home coming in through the
front door because i'm standing on top
of it right now this is jerry's place or
what's left of it the window blown out
everything's strewn about what's left of
the kitchen on this side and this
isn't the worst part step into the sun
room with me he loves to come in here
and just hang out on nice days well
it's a little worse now because the roof
completely gone and the rest of the home
destroyed as well and this is only one
home just like it in the entire
neighborhood
no heat
electric
nothing jerry speckman has been staying
in what's left of his home since the
tornado he like most gaylord residents
who were hit have no place to go
there's no housing in this town nothing
affordable anyways
it just yeah it was a major problem
before this even happened i don't know
where the new people are going to go
making matters worse for jerry his son
lives
or used to live here the tornado first
ripped apart this mobile home park then
made its way across main street and into
the neighborhood hitting jerry's home
when it touched down his son was napping
in their mobile home
and he said his wife woke him up said
baby the
alert's going off we got to wake up it
says take cover and he woke up and he
said he looked at the phone the next
thing he remembers is seeing the washing
machine flying at them and then they
were in the street collapsed with
everything on top of them
and the neighbors had dug them out of
rubble
today both are still in the hospital my
son has a fractured spine
pelvis and his wife also has the
fractured pelvis
and it's going to be a couple weeks
before they get out of there
and this video is next door to jerry's
home an suv dash cam inside the tornado
artis huff was just inside that garage
door holding on to her 94 year old
mother and as i said it only lasted like
eight seconds then i heard the trees
fall and i thought we were gone
now just to add some perspective here
where our live truck is sitting is where
that dumpster was
it rolled thrown all the way across this
driveway to where it sits now
of course there are a lot of people here
who still need help need supplies need
donations we've got all the information
on how you can help on our website at
clickondetroit.com we're in gaylord nick
monticelli local four
amazing perspective and seeing from the
drone footage
a dumpster blowing around yeah boy well
take a look at what our camera spotted
the day at nine mile and coolidge 499 a
gallon at the station we've seen the
credit price at 509 what the experts
warned us about it's here and it's
showing no signs of letting up megan
woods is live tonight for us and megan
this five dollar gallon mark is really a
breaking point for some people
struggling to make ends meet
it is and we're here on nine mile in
coolidge and that's where we see that
credit price at 509 and that's just for
regular it's frustrating for drivers
myself included and one of the drivers
we spoke to says he's going to have to
rethink where he works to somehow
shorten his commute every day and save
gas
oh lord it's getting ridiculous i don't
know how i'm going to keep doing it
everything is just it's too much but
here they are pumping gas as high as it
is you can't go without it you have to
have it i'm literally right there at e
like right there and i live down here so
i normally come to these gas stations it
just got this high watching what gets
this needle to move is what hurts the
most
aaa says drivers are paying an average
of 68 dollars to fill up it takes me
like
100 something to fill up my tank fully
you can really feel the pressure
of just putting 20 30 dollars in it's
nothing aaa data also says the average
here in michigan is 457 a gallon it's a
dollar and 64 cents more than this time
last year and as the prices continue to
go up drivers say something has got to
give i'm working overtime
to put gas in my car
so that's where we're at i'm actually
working
for the pump
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i just don't go anywhere now
pretty much it just to work to work and
back home
and that's
it and you may not just see the prices
go up at the pump but also on your lawn
service bill we talked to two different
companies who say they fill up here on a
daily basis and one of them says they
may have to you know raise their prices
to cover what's going on here at the
pump and so for tips on how to save
we'll have that on click on detroit.com
live in oak park i'm megan woods local
4. hey megan thank you a 24 year old is
arrested in connection with a vandalism
spree and wyandotte the crimes happened
last week police say tuesday several
cars were scratched with a pointed
object then wednesday police say they
got more than 20 reports of damaged
vehicles in all of them a single tire
had been stabbed on the side wall this
is jack oviatt he's been charged with
malicious destruction of personal
property in connection to those crimes
pretty nice day but brett is tracking
some changes coming to our weather brett
yeah we're talking rain and then
probably the hottest temperatures of the
year the next few days though will be
somewhat soggy a good dose is on the way
we'll track it in just a bit
you never think by looking at these
trailers that three custom-built cars
were stored here but a group of thieves
took off with all of them overnight i
opened up to look to see what they stole
and i looked in and the jeep was gone
tonight a westland business owner walks
us through the shocking discovery
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and we continue to follow breaking news
out of vivaldi texas where 14 children
and one teacher have been killed in a
shooting at an elementary school the 18
year old gunman opened fire at robb
elementary a school for second third and
fourth graders about 85 miles west of
san antonio the shooter is dead likely
killed by responding officers president
biden is expected to address the
shooting tonight at around 8 15. we'll
be monitoring the situation throughout
the night as well nbc nightly news will
have any updates next at 6 30. we'll be
right back