Happening Today: Texas Church Shooting, Anthony Weiner, Russia Probe, Health Care

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26 Killed in Church Attack in Texas' Worst Mass Shooting

A man dressed in all black and wearing a "ballistic vest" fired a Ruger semi-automatic rifle at a church in a small South Texas community, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in what the governor called the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history. Victims were churchgoers as young as five and as old as 72. The gunman has been identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, of neighboring Comal County, officials said. Kelley also died, law enforcement officials said. DPS Regional Director Freeman Martin said 23 people were found dead inside the church, two were found outside and one victim died at the hospital. Martin said the suspect crossed the street from a Valero gas station, fired at the church and entered the church, firing from a Ruger AR rifle. He eventually dropped his rifle and fled. The suspect was found dead inside his getaway vehicle. Federal officials say the gunman's motive is unclear but there is no obvious sign of a connection to terrorism.

Texas Church Shooter Identified as 26-Year-Old Devin Patrick Kelley

The man authorities have identified as the gunman in a mass shooting at a Texas church faced court-martial and was discharged from the Air Force for allegedly assaulting his wife and child, according to an Air Force spokeswoman. The spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, said Devin Kelley was sentenced to 12 months' confinement after a 2012 court-martial. He ultimately received a bad conduct discharge and reduction in rank. She said Kelley served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge in 2014. Authorities did not announce his name at a news conference on the shooting, saying only that the suspect was a white male in his 20s. But law enforcement officials identified Kelley to NBC News as the person who opened fire Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others. An official said investigators are looking at social media posts Kelley may have made in the days before the attack, including one that appeared to show an AR-15 style semiautomatic weapon.

Anthony Weiner to Surrender for Prison Stint for Sexting Conviction

A sexting compulsion that cost Anthony Weiner his seat in Congress and a chance to be New York City's mayor is about to cost him his freedom too. Weiner is scheduled to surrender at Devens Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts to beginning serving a 21-month sentence for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl. The facility in Ayer, about 40 miles west of Boston, has over 1,000 inmates at the medical center and over 100 more at an adjacent minimum security satellite camp. Weiner was sentenced in September by a judge who said Weiner's crime resulted from a "very strong compulsion." A tearful Weiner said he was undergoing therapy and had been "a very sick man for a very long time."

Mueller Has Enough Evidence to Charge in Flynn Probe, Source Says

Federal investigators have gathered enough evidence to bring charges in their investigation of President Trump's former national security adviser and his son as part of the probe into Russia's intervention in the 2016 election, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News. Michael T. Flynn, who was fired after just 24 days on the job, was one of the first Trump associates to come under scrutiny in the federal probe now led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign. Mueller is applying renewed pressure on Flynn following his indictment of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, three sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News. The investigators are speaking to multiple witnesses in coming days to gain more information surrounding Flynn's lobbying work, including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his overseas contacts, three sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News. A spokesperson for the special counsel did not comment. Flynn's lawyer, Robert Kelner, declined to comment. The younger Flynn's lawyer, Barry Coburn, declined to comment.

Texas Church Shooting “Isn't a Guns Situation,” Trump Says

President Trump while in Japan said the mass shooting at a Texas church "isn't a guns situation," instead saying it is "a mental health problem at the highest level," NBC News reported. Speaking at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump called the shooting suspect, identified as 26-year-old Devin Kelley, a "very deranged individual" with "a lot of problems over a long period of time." Trump dismissed guns as the root of the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs that left 26 people dead, saying "it's a little bit too soon" to discuss gun control measures. He called attention to the armed resident who confronted the shooter, saying the shooting could "have been much worse." "It's a very, very sad event. These are great people," he said.

House GOP Weighs Repeal of Health Mandate in Tax Bill

Republicans are weighing a repeal of a key tenet of the Obama-era health care law in their tax overhaul as the House's tax-writing committee begins work on shaping the bill. Speaker Paul Ryan said Republicans are discussing whether their tax plan should include a repeal of the Obama health law's requirement that people have insurance coverage or face a penalty, a step pushed by President Trump but seen by some GOP lawmakers as possibly imperiling a much-needed legislative victory. It would be another shot at further undermining the Affordable Care Act after repeated failures by the GOP-led Congress to repeal and replace the law. That is a step Trump has demanded and Republicans promised would happen after President Obama left office and Republicans won the presidency and have control of Congress. The House Ways and Means Committee begins work on the tax rewrite, with the goal of full House action before Thanksgiving. The committee chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, has said that including a repeal of the health law's individual mandate would be politically problematic, given that the Senate has failed to pass health legislation in Trump's first year.