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A moment of silence at US military basis and flags at half staff to honor and remember those gunned down at Fort Hood tonight the moment of says an army psychiatrist opened fire at the base the suspect New details emerging tonight about a troubled history the victims mourning those who lost their lives at Fort Hood so the.

Seizing new numbers the bleakest unemployment picture in twenty six years one in ten American workers is now out of work nightly news this Friday night begins now.

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Good evening as the nation's largest military post deals with the concussion of what happened there yesterday the colossal loss of life tonight a single gunman is hospitalized under heavy guard and the numbers have gone up to thirteen killed forty three injured in that single attack on Fort Hood in Texas and a new picture is emerging of this accused gunman literally and figuratively the army major a trained psychiatrist as we may now know much more about his past and his personal life again tonight we have all of it covered beginning with Lester Holt in Fort Hood denied Leicester goodie.

Brian good evening the accused shooter who himself was shot and wounded has been transferred to the Brooke army medical Center in San Antonio that's about a hundred fifty miles from here he is in stable condition in the intensive care unit there meantime his former comrades back here are left to wonder why and also to wonder whether anyone could have or should have seen this cut.

The army's top brass at Fort Hood today leading soldiers in a moment of silence exactly twenty four hours after one of their own turned his stateside post into a battleground.

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They chose to confirm the carnage was the work of one man army major and psychiatrists mid Al Hassan well they say turned on the very soldiers he was charge with caring for.

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The picture emerging a facade is of a many increasingly anguished over is imminent deployment to Afghanistan still they say there was no warning when it won thirty four PM has on dressed in his army uniform opened fire inside the fourth soldier readiness Center where men and women preparing for deployment were undergoing medical screenings also in the line of fire a group filing into a graduation ceremony army photographers specialist Elliott Valdes was heading into the theaters and told his story to a military video.

Crew few outside of fear coming inside screen being an there have been one person that made his way to the theory that then shot.

Says that happened is a Rabbi camera Fran outside.

In an exclusive interview with NBC's salt Lake City affiliate KSL a father of a soldier who's it added he did not want revealed describe what his daughter says happened before the gunmen started shooting.

He said all off for and it's just opened up on everybody and initially she thought that it was part of the training some real life scenario but it was within a second or two that she realized it was for real because the person next to her was shot and killed instantly.

The rampage ended when civilian police officer Sergeant Kimberly mildly shocked us on four times wounding him despite being shot herself her father Dennis Barber back in North Carolina.

Year primary primary secondary concern is just for your family so you're not you're not feeling that ill will or Ford feelings against someone that would you just questioning why why would anyone in their right mind store something like this.

This morning President Obama said the motive of the attack is still unknown.

What we do know is that their families friends skin and our nation grieving right now for the valiant men or women who came under attack yesterday.

Army officials are for now treating the attack as an isolated incident and cautioning against a rush to judge.

I do worry slightly about a potential backlash.

With thirteen dead and over forty injured the army hopes the attack won't create deeper wounds within the Brotherhood of soldiers.

In one of the many sad ironies of this tragedy the bodies of those who were killed here are making the same solemn journey tonight that America's war dead today are being flown Brian to Dover Air Force base in Delaware to a military mortuary where they will eventually be turned over to the family.

Lester Holt starting us off tonight from the main gate there at Fort Hood in Texas Leicester thanks and we are learning more tonight about the suspect Major Hassan his personality and his past our Pentagon correspondent Jim Nicolas chef ski has more on that angle tonight Jim good evening.

Good evening Brian as we've looked into no doubt his son's past army officials agree that there were many warning signs that military commanders should have a recognized as a potential threat.

An American citizen the doll his son was born and raised in Virginia the son of Palestinian immigrants today at his grandmother's home in the West Bank his cousin Mohammad watch news reports of yesterday's attack in an exclusive interview he told NBC News has signed claimed he had been constantly harassed by his fellow soldiers who fought so recently he tried to get out of the or because soldiers ridiculed him for being a Muslim and for his religious traditions the day before the deadly rampage his son phoned a friend to say goodbye and gave a neighbor all his belongings including his Koran.

At about Muslim aside worshipped daily at the Muslim community center outside Washington where fellow worshippers were stunned by the news I do you think that if you can one person you can form in anything.

In this East end video assigned to the scene at a conference on the Israeli Palestinian conflict last January yes son join the army against his parents wishes but it was the military.

Made his way through Virginia Tech and medical school where he trained his psychiatrist it was at Walter Reed army medical Center where her son's troubles began.

Army officials say he was a loner reprimanded for launching into religious rants during counseling sessions for soldiers with combat stress and in most of his performance evaluations his commanders gave in sub par rate.

As family and friends also claim all at Fort Hood the son had become increasingly upset over his up coming deployment to Afghanistan some military experts blame son should have never been sent to Fort Hood and more temperate combat deployed but.

The army so short on psychiatrists commanders may have chosen to overlook the warnings.

It's the mental health profession is very undermanned they need every person that they can get and so it's possible that someone made a choice that said he can suck it up.

The army intends to investigate what mistakes if any military commanders made in leading up to this attack but army officials are also concerned about a possible backlash against Muslims in the military and say that the acts of this one soldier should in no way diminish the contributions made by more than four thousand Muslims serving in the army today.

For our Jim McLeish asking at the pentagon Jim thanks now a reminder there are two investigations going on here the army and the FBI we have more on both tonight from our Justice correspondent Pete Williams watching it from our Washington News repeat Kitty.

And Brian there are some answers tonight federal investigators say the son used a powerful handgun in his rampage they say it was a Belgian made semi automatic pistol like this one made to fire high velocity bullets and capable of holding a clip with twenty rounds investigators say he bought at a Texas gun store this one very near Fort Hood some witnesses report seeing several ammunition clips on the ground where he was wounded the FBI is also looking into whether he wrote this blog posting in May it signed the Dollhouse on and says suicide bombers act with the same motive the soldiers who fall on a grenade to save their comrades but so far nothing proves that he wrote it federal agents are checking his computer researching his Texas apartment and talking to people who knew him very here in the Washington area where he went to school tonight federal investigators say the evidence so far indicates that he was acting alone and as for how the sun will be prosecuted he could be tried in the military system in a court martial which could bring the death penalty but there hasn't been a military execution in forty eight years so he may be prosecuted instead by the Justice Department in the regular civilian court.

For all right Pete Williams with more on what we've been able to find out so far and now to the view from those who were there when the massacre took place they witnessed nothing short of combat conditions in the middle of a stateside military base NBC's Mark Potter is in Fort Hood as well for us tonight marketing.

And good evening to you Brian it was a day of tragedy and heroism as soldiers work as fast as they could to save their own.

When the shooting started and the wounded fell the soldiers who were spared did whatever they could to help save lives.

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Sergeant Andrew figure meant a military policeman arrived right after the shootings to find what he called controlled chaos there was intense the biggest thing was trying to get all the wounded out those wounded were rushed to area hospitals and emergency rooms were also filled with soldiers not wanting to leave their injured friends they take care their bodies and they just wanted stand and make sure their bodies are okay.

At the emergency room some of the wounded soldiers actually drove themselves here in their own cars others who were more seriously hurt were brought here by their bodies in their cars.

Among the wounded was twenty one year old army specialist hero Bono from independence Missouri who is newly married and was preparing for deployment to Iraq.

She was mad when I first factor she said they shot me they shot me and she was actually more may have been anything in that's her.

Twenty seven year old Nathan Hewitt from Lafayette Indiana was shot in the hip and calf he served in Iraq left the army been re enlisted when he lost a factory job among those killed in the shoot out was nineteen year old Aaron MLK from West Jordan Utah.

Who mission everything about him it was fun to be around.

Also killed was fifty one year old Russell Seeger who worked at the V a Hospital in a radio interview he explained why he signed up for the army Reserve four years ago.

And I said a great deal respect for the military and poorer service candidates that's list time then stepped up and did it actually.

Twenty one year old Michael Pearson of bowling Brook Illinois had been trained to date.

Hughes bombs he died after being shot three times was the best the whole world twenty one year old Francesca Velez died in the shoot out just after returning from Iraq I just want everybody has that's it does the wonderful incident and deserve the fullest had returned home early because she was a month and a half pregnant.

As relatives Grieve tonight they still can't believe all this happened on a US military base Brian.

Mark Potter at Fort Hood tonight Mark thanks and for more on this we are joined by NBC News military analyst Jack Jacobs combat veteran from Vietnam retired US army colonel and a recipient of the medal of honor he too was at Fort Hood for us tonight Jack what does this do to the US army and more than that life on base whether the base's Florida voter four drummer Fort Bragg of it or any.

Well I think Hillary and indeed the other services and are re double their efforts to do exactly what they promise to do and what they said they will do some time ago and that is to work diligently to have everybody make sure that anybody who has problems is identified to the chain of command so that he can be treated or taken out of the system before he is a danger to himself to the mission or to other people.

And Jack what is it you are still looking to find out what do you still wanna know about this case.

Well the numbers really don't work work out very well yet one man armed with two pistols indeed if they carry twenty rounds per magazine could inflict more than forty wounds in the her to time that he was there very much concerned that there may have been friendly fire involved in some of our.

Jack Jacobs at Fort Hood as well for us tonight Jack thanks when nightly news continues here on a Friday evening the jobless rate.

Jumps to levels not seen since the early nineteen eighties and what about those who've been out of work the longest and later how the people of the Fort Hood community there in Texas civilian and military are coping with this unfathomable trial.

Julian jet with me he was risking their lives looking to charge to see species from extinction Time is running out future for one hundred forty screeners November twenty second on this and say.

As we mentioned the top of the broadcast tonight there's news on the economy and jobs the unemployment rate in this country jumped sharply in October up four tenths of a percent that put it said puts it at ten point two per cent a number that we haven't seen since the early nineteen eighties NBC's John Yang as our report from Denver.

The people in this Colorado support group don't need government statistics itself of the jobs picture is bleak they're among the fifteen point seven million Americans who can't find jobs.

Zion a minority I saw the need to get in the mix it is very discouraging.

If if Washington President Obama facing increasing pressure for a new stimulus it's signed legislation extending unemployment benefits for the fourth time in eighteen months I won't let off so the Americans won't find work.

Find work the ten point two percent unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story cutting those who've given up looking for work those who work part time because they can't find a full time job the rate is seventeen point five per cent.

It's really clearly showing that the jobs are not coming back in any significant way to most industries in the country jobs are hard to come by Nationwide there are six unemployed people for every job opening here in the West that figure is seven for every opening.

The average unemployed American has been out of a job twenty seven weeks more than half the year and five point seven million Americans have been jobless for a year or more both records picture made engineer Dave Kaczynski hasn't had steady work since July two thousand eight Wednesday and Thursday site houses two weeks ago I was when are so the first guy Taylor who lost her technology job ten months ago was about to turn fifty and has exhausted her retirement savings.

I had the Sacramento the I just what is the list.

A set of its shares by more and more of them if we've off John Yang ABC News Denver .

On Wall Street today stocks held on to some modest gains to snap a two week losing streak the dowel for its part finished up seventeen and a half points when we come back here tonight perhaps we should put it this way if you're watching this in Boston might want just look away from.

The two Vancouver starts now Georgia the sky the way all we are increase.

Unbelievably there was another mass shooting today it happened in Orlando where police say forty year old Jason Rodriguez walked into the architecture firm worry once worked and opened fire killing one person injuring five others Rodriguez was fired from that company two years ago taken into custody today at his mother's house several hours after that shooting on Capitol Hill they'll be working this weekend Democrats hope to hold a vote on health care either Saturday night or Sunday morning President Obama may travel to Capitol Hill to personally lobby for passage swine flu is still wide spread in forty eight states federal health officials said today and probably has not reached its peak yet and while the vaccine is still hard to come by they said there were twice as many doses available today as there were two weeks ago at least was still more on the way painful day throughout Red Sox nation for that matter South all the way to Philly but a big day here in New York today as Yankee fans celebrated their teams.

Twenty seventh world series victory with a ticker tape parade in lower Manhattan the decking Matsu League series MVP Alex Rodriguez all the team mates were given keys to the city at City Hall when we come back here tonight more on our top story the event that has fractured central Texas.

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Normally at this point in the broadcast we would air our Friday night making a difference report but tonight there's more to say about that tragedy at Fort Hood Texas and what is done to the surrounding community there in central Texas and how they're all dealing with it tonight our report from NBC's Janet sham.

He never you corner of building today and more as soon as they're driven home than the threat even through nineteen year old Cassandra Kelly donating blood and offering thanks for the safety of her sister who works at Fort Hood I pray Jenny Spitzer waited hours alongside other military wives added over well bred crops their husbands were well out of harm's way yesterday in Iraq it's the right thing a game you get it get to your fellow people they live with I mean there they can be our neighbors for all we know and a previously planned charity barbecue took on new significance money raised will help Fort Hood family.

Prior that when the worst happened in this central Texas town it brought out the best in its people church members the kids and commitments footing at all I'm told making baskets for families of the fall you are struck.

Well you know actually in the end when settling this happens it just break your prayer.

And middle schoolers who were on lock down yesterday today sending cards of condolence single Burleson Gibson from barber shop chatter the silent tributes across the city hearts our prayers go out to everyone there's been affected by this thank you so much for observing moments are turning grief into good doesn't think that means that I can happen so close to you when it.

And when it that's what a military town like this shows its boss Janet Shanley and NBC News billion texts.

And that's our broadcast for this Friday night in for this week thank you for being with us I am Brian Williams will see you back here on Monday in the meantime have a good weekend good...