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Busiest day ever in the air, but Severe Weather threatening 45 million from texas to michigan after five Straight Days of Tornado Outbreaks in the central u. S. In oklahoma, this Monster Tornado on the ground for nearly an hour. Our team at the airport and in the storm zone. Also breaking tonight, the horror in haiti. A Young American couple working as missionaries killed by gangs. The mother of one of them telling us, her son called her as it happened. His final words to her. The american tourist avoiding a 12year Prison Sentence for bringing ammunition to Turks And Caicos. His release following 100 days trapped in paradise as the judge sets him free, but what about the other Americans Still detained there . We speak to two of them. Just in tonight, the judge denying alec baldwins bid to dismiss his charge over the deadly rust shooting. When the actor is headed to trial. New pressure on israel. The u. N. s top court ordering it to halt the rafah operation. Plus, his oscar nominated documentary shined a light on fast food health concerns. Remembering Morgan Spurlock. And the College Baseball Team Fighting to bring a world series win back to a school whose days are numbered. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. And good evening. Im tom llamas in for lester. We begin with two things on the minds of so Many Americans this friday night, Holiday Travel and Severe Weather. A potentially volatile combination as the unofficial start of summer gets under way. Aaa says its going to be the busiest Memorial Day Weekend Memorial Day Weekend in almost 20 years with nearly 44 million of us expected to travel 50 miles or more. The tsa says it expects to screen more than 18 million air travelers and predicts a record Summer Travel season, but one of the Big Questions going on this weekend, how much more Severe Weather are we in for, and are these incredible scenes of a Tornado Tearing through parts of oklahoma a preview of whats to come . We start with Senior Correspondent tom costello tonight. Reporter kickoff to the Summer Travel season with 20year high memorial weekend traffic hitting the roads, but signs of trouble already with the fire in bostons ted williams tunnel creating havoc, and at the airports, recordbreaking numbers of passengers. The weather looks good right now, so hopefully my flight wont get canceled. Reporter the tsa says today alone could set a record with 3 million chickpoint screenings. I just need your i. D. Hold on to your ticket. Reporter five of the busiest have been this Month Setting up another Summer Stress Test for airports and airlines. Last year we saw a tenyear low in terms of the cancellation rate. So far thats holding this year. Well be looking to the airlines to see if they can keep it up. Echo kilo to the ramp. Reporter at dfw airport, the nations second busiest, the Command Center watches it all. From here they monitor 20 miles of underground Baggage Track at dfw, 80,000 bags a day moving through the system through five terminals. You see a lot of green. Thats fantastic. Green is good. Reporter American Airlines with its new baggage control room to speed up bag delivery and cut its lost luggage rate. Bags with tight connections at hubs are loaded last, so theyre offloaded first, and now some are going on earlier flights. We have found that very, very effective in ensuring that bags are either traveling with our customers or slightly ahead of our customers into some of our key markets. Reporter if i get to the airport two hours early, my bag may make an earlier flight to Reagan Airport or l. A. X. Or wherever im going . It could. Right. Reporter today thunderstorms paused departures in chicago while a brief Communication Failure at memphis control affected nashville and dallas flights. One big threat this summer, the faa is still short 3,000 air Traffic Controllers despite pushing through big classes at the air Traffic Control academy. All right, tom joins us live. Tom, lets pick up right there. I feel like weve been dealing with this issue for a couple of years. Why is staffing still such a problem for the faa . Reporter yeah, a few issues. Mandatory Retirement Age of 56 for controllers. 30 of the folks in the academy, they wash out, and another 30 quit once they get on the job and realize how difficult the job is, and that has meant flight cancellations, cutting back flights in new york last summer and the concern is it could happen again. Thank you for that. The risk of severe storms complicating the travel picture this weekend. After a stunning 26 reported tornadoes touched down across the great plains and midwest, heres maggie vespa. Oh, my gosh, dude. Yeah, its a big tornado. Reporter jawdropping video painting a familiar picture. An apparent monster twister tearing through oklahoma on the ground for nearly an hour. Hail hammering the town of duke overnight as a merciless streak of tornadoes stretches on. Iowas governor saying the president speeded up an Emergency Declaration ravaged by tuesdays deadly ef4 tornado. Basically were going to have to start from scratch. Reporter storms slamming the state again. This Car Catching Fire near des moines this morning after winds ripped down power lines. Hours later heavy machine pulls a metal roof from a tree after a reported tornado hit western illinois. Authorities say no one was hurt. 10yearold michael cleaned up debris with his brother after seeing the twister from his school bus. I saw it getting ready to come touch the ground. How did you feel when you saw it . Nervous and scared. Couldnt get to him, and thats the worst feeling ever a parent can ever imagine having. Reporter 2024 is the third most active year on record with 900 reported tornadoes, more than a third in may, and heading into the Holiday Weekend tens of millions more find themselves in mother natures line of fire desperate for relief. Tom. All right, maggie and her team covering those storms all week. That brings us right to bill karins. Bill, for many a dangerous weekend, huh . Severe thunderstorms tonight, texas to illinois, but tomorrow is the day that were watching the chance of violent tornadoes again. The i35 corridor going into oklahoma all the way up to the wichita area. That will be after the dinner hour when theyll pop and explode and continue through the night and even into Sunday Morning for areas like st. Louis, indianapolis, Big Damaging Wind threat will head your way. Heres how the forecast will shape up through the Holiday Weekend, showers, hit and miss, not going to ruin your plan, sunday, the day with the nasty weather that heads to the great lakes and monday a rainy, cloudy cooler period for the east coast. More bad weather to watch, tom. As we go throughout the Holiday Weekend. Well stay on alert for that. From haiti, a harrowing story of that countrys escalating violence. Three missionaries, two americans have been shot and killed by armed gangs. Heres gabe gutierrez. Reporter tonight, davey lloyds mother is in agony. He died doing what he loved because he just wanted to help the haitian people. Reporter alicia lloyd and her husband founded missions in haiti more than 20 years ago. The independent nonprofit runs schools and churches. Last night she picked up her phone to learn an armed gang was terrorizing her son, his wife natalie and a haitian colleague. He had already sustained a beating at the hands of a gang, and they had come into the compound and taken everything, then at that time a second gang entered. Reporter none of them would survive. Davey was just 23 and natalie, 21. Today her dad wrote, my heart is broken in a thousand pieces. They put gasoline, they set the house on fire, and then they broke the door down and went in and shot them. Reporter armed gangs control most of haitis capital since the assassination of the countrys president three years ago. More than 2,500 people were killed or injured by Gang Violence in the country in the first three months of this year. Now kenya will lead a Multinational Security force to help stabilize haiti. The Biden Administration has promised to set aside 300 million for the effort, but the president stresses there will not be american troops on the ground. Were going to supply logistics, intelligence, and equipment. Reporter tonight with the future of the Nonprofit Alicia Lloyd founded uncertain, shes remembering her son, who she says just wanted to make a difference. He just had a heart to do what was right, and i just dont know how im going to deal with all this, but i know that god saved him. Reporter the u. S. Government continues to have a do not travel warning in haiti with a Central Government u. S. Personnel forbidden from Walking Around the capital. Gabe gutierrez with that critical situation in haiti. In Turks And Caicos one of five american tourists charged with bringing ammunition into the country illegally was freed by a court that could have sentenced him to 12 years in prison. Priscilla thompson has this one. Absolutely elated. Cant wait to get home. Reporter Bryan Hagerich a free man today after being detained for three months. A judge sentencing the father of two to a yearlong suspended sentence and 6,700 fine after hagerich pled guilty to possession of ammunition he says was accidentally left in a checked bag he used for hunting trips. The crime punishable by 12 years in prison. The Judge Setting aside that minimum citing the act being unintentional, that he has no prior criminal record and the impact on his 5yearold daughter. Overwhelming, just joy, this is what weve been waiting for for the last 101 days to be home and hug my kids. Its the best day. Reporter the financial toll, an estimated 100,000 a Family Spokesperson says. Off we go. Reporter now hagerich is headed back stateside as four other americans facing similar charges in separate incidents await their day in court. We did it. Got it. God did it. Thankful. Thankful. So happy. Reporter Sharitta Grier and ryan watson are hoping for a similar fate. I also have so much comfort knowing that hes getting to hug his kids tonight. Man, i want that for him almost as bad as i want it for me. Reporter renewed hope for returning home after they say paradise became a prison. Priscilla thompson, nbc news. And theres Breaking News about alec baldwin. The actor is headed to trial now after the judge denied his bid to dismiss his charge in the deadly rust shooting. Chloe melas joins us. So, whats next . So alec baldwin is on course to head to trial this july in new mexico where he is charged with manslaughter for the Fatal Shooting of cinematogrpaher Halyna Hutchins which occurred on the movie set of rust in 2021. Now, the judge overseeing the case announcing her decision tonight, this news comes after baldwins Manslaughter Charges were dismissed last year by new mexico prosecutors. He was then recharged by a grand jury in january. Nbc news has reached out to baldwin for comment. In the past he has said that he was not responsible. Now, the films armorer was convicted of manslaughter in march and is serving an 18month Prison Sentence and tom, sentence, and, tom, bald in, if convicted, also faces 18 months. Chloe melas with that, thank you. In the middle east growing pressure on israel after the u. N. s top Court Ordered it to halt its offensive in rafah. Heres raf sanchez. Reporter tonight, this israeli air strike hitting rafah. Our team in gaza following fire crews trying to put out the flames. What the palestinians need is immediately stop the war. Reporter the strike coming just as the u. N. s highest Court Ordered israel to stop its Military Operations in the city to protect civilians. Israel Must Immediately halt its military offensive. Reporter the ruling is binding, but the world court has no means of enforcing it, and israel giving no sign itll comply saying, it launched a just war to eliminate hamas following the October 7th Terror attack and that its acting to reduce as much harm as possible to civilians, but nearly a million palestinians have been displaced since the start of the rafah operation. The courts action today adding more pressure on israel after war crimes prosecutors earlier called for the arrest of both israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hamas leaders. The white house called that move against israel outrageous. We dont think there is an equivalence between what israel did and what hamas did. Reporter the court today also calling it deeply troubling that hamas still refuses to immediately release its hostages. Israels military says it recovered the bodies of three more hostages today, and after a call with president biden, the loader of egypt tonight agreeing to allow more aid into gaza through israel, tom. Okay, raf, thank you for that. In 60 seconds, he gained fame with his movie, Super Size Me. Well remember Documeary Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock next. Tween milestones like this may start at age 9. Hpv vaccination a type of Cancer Prevention against certain hpvrelated cancers, can start then too. For most, hpv clears on its own. But for others, it can cause certain cancers later in life. Youre welcome now, as the dad cab, its my cue to help protect them. Embrace this phase. Help protect them in the next. Ask their doctor today about hpv vaccination. start your day with nature made. The 1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. Breathing claritin clear is like. [ ] feeling the breeze instead of feeling congested. 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Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden focused on the war in afghanistan. One direction this is us took a deep dive into the phenomenon of the boy band. In 2017 at the height of the Me Too Movement Spurlock turned the spotlight on himself admitting he had a history of Sexual Misconduct writing in part, if im going to truly represent myself as someone who has built a career on finding the truth, then its time for me to be truthful as well. I am part of the problem. After it was released Super Size Me 2 got pulled from the Film Festival and spurlock stepped down from his production company, but not before he played a supersized role in the national conversation. Stephanie gosk, nbc news. All right, up next, the growing number of seniors facing the threat of homelessness. It was really. Standing up. Even walking was tough. My joints hurt. I was afraid things were going to get worse. I was always hiding and thats just not me. Not being there for my family, that hurt. 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Reporter like many major cities oakland Prohibited Landlords from kicking moratorium they were began demanding a years worth of back rent and tenants who didnt pay up were seeing an alarming rise of the eviction of lowincome seniors. Reporter this lawyer is the Executive Director of the eviction defense fund. Seniors were hit very, very hard by covid. A lot of them, they have fixed incomes, right, like Social Security that barely, barely covers the rent. Reporter today nearly a quarter of her clients are elderly. Thats up 17 compared to prepandemic. Nationally seniors are now the Fastest Growing age group experiencing homelessness, roughly 140,000 and counting. This nonprofit took on zetas case after the oakland native received a notice from our landlord demanding she pay nearly 18,000 in owed rent or move out in three days. What went through your mind . They didnt care to expect me to move that fast like in three days, impossible. Reporter tenants can legally fight off their eviction for rent missed during the pandemic if they can show they endured a substantial Financial Hardship as a result of covid19. My client has responsibilities. Reporter this real Estate Attorney represents zetas landlord. As unfortunate as it is, small Property Owners cant subsidize these types of situations. Its not fair to ask them to. Reporter he says renters need to have documentation proving their struggles, and they also need to hire an attorney. What would you say to those who argue that this puts an unfair burden on the shoulders of tenants because the only way to make the defense is to have to go through this Legal Process . If its truly the result of substantial Financial Hardship, you would have bank records, credit card bills, and loss of income you could show and a decrease of hours. That would be pretty easy to prove. Reporter instead of going to court, zeta reached a settlement with her landlord. 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Reporter the birminghamsouthern panthers could make baseball history. First is wide and down the line. Reporter playing in the College World series without a college. Confused . So were the players when their coach told them the school was closing down due to a lack of funding. Its always been about passing on to the next guy thats played your position, worn your number, sat in your locker, yet now there s no one to pass it on to. The job was just to finish so strong. Reporter at the time the team was in a bit of a slump. 13 wins and 10 losses. Your coach tells you your school is going to shut down, and its almost like something clicked. What happened with the team . I think really we just started playing looser because, like, we have nothing to lose. Reporter the team took off winning 17 of their final 21 games, advancing to the super regionals. To be able to go in our last year and the lasting memory that people have of birminghamsouthern of us in the world series would be incredible. Reporter their coach said the school has never had a team like this one. The closest team ive ever had by far and just goes to prove the power of togetherness. Lets go reporter for the players, they say theyve learned to deal with adversity coming together and trying to honor all those athletes and students who came before them. What does it mean to wear that jersey today and for the rest of this tournament . It means the world to me. This jersey, people before me have worn this jersey, and im just really trying to represent them and carry on what theyve done for the program. Go, panthers. Thats nightly news for this friday. Im tom llamas in new york. Thank you so much for watching. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend. A slow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose Comcast Business. 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