Tonight the deadly shooting at a school in Iowa on the first day back from winter break,

police saying a 17 year old student armed with a shotgun and a handgun opened fire on the

campus, a sixth grader killed.

Four other students and a school administrator injured,

the shooter taking his own life, also founded the scene

and improvised explosive device.

Our team is there. The major storm moving across the country

from the rock east of the Gulf Coast, then threatening to slam the northeast with snow.

We're tracking it. The escalation in the Middle East, the U.S. drone strike in Iraq, killing the leader of an

Iranian-backed militia.

It comes a day after the blasts in Iran that killed dozens, the terror group now claiming responsibility.

The new batch of court documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein just unsealed.

The high-powered names being revealed and the fallout. A shocking moment

in the courtroom a defendant leaping over the bench and attacking the judge, her condition

and the new charges that man faces.

The new program just launched to make getting popular weight loss drugs easier,

how it works, and the concerns it's raising.

And the classic video game

unbeaten for more than 30 years until now

a 13 year old gamer who topple Tetris.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome. Today a new year brought back a haunting bane of the past as another school shooting left a

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