Tonight the school children praying in the middle of mass when a gunman opened fire on their church.

The deadly shooting during the first week of school in Minneapolis.

At least two students being called angels tonight killed and 17 injured, including other children and parishioners in their 80s.

The shooter fired through stained glass windows during a morning mass.

Kids hiding under pews from gunfire, you'll hear from a fifth grader

describing how the friend who protected him ended up being shot.

Police identifying the lone shooter, investigators still working to determine a motive,

the arsenal that shooter carried, and what appears to be the sketch of a church that was in what

police called a disturbing manifesto, partially written in another language.

The FBI now investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime.

And I'll talk to the mayor of

Minneapolis the moment he arrived to the school and his emotional promise to the parents who lost

their children. Also breaking tonight, the CDC director just fired, barely a month on the job

with the agency under heavy pressure and scrutiny, why now and will

more follow? The new video as rescuers save a pilot whose plane started sinking following a

crash landing on the ocean. Tonight you'll hear from the first responders who rescued him.

And the time capsule sealed and buried by Princess Diana from 1991 now unveiled. What

was inside? Nightly News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas.

And good evening. They were there to start a new year of school. They were there to pray.

And when a gunman started shooting through the stained glass windows during mass,

dozens of kids took cover under the pews of their sanctuary. Tonight in Minneapolis,

two children are dead, as well as the gunmen who injured 17 more,

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