the showdown in the courtroom. the coldest blast of the season so far from texas to the northeast. we re tracking it. the delta pilot charged with pulling a gun in the cockpit why authorities say he threatened to shoot the captain midflight. and the marathon man running on the road to redemption announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. a diplomatic breakthrough has cracked open the door that has left foreigners, including americans, trapped inside war-torn gaza tonight, americans are among a handful of people who were able to leave gaza after egypt partially opened a key border crossing. gaza has become an increasingly dangerous place for foreigners and residents since israel launched its assault on hamas tonight with israeli troops on the ground there taking their own casualties, a new communications outage is making life even more difficult israel is facing condemnation for yesterday s deadly strike on a refugee camp where
hundreds of foreign nationals crowding at the rafah border crossing to flee gaza for egypt including a handful of americans, but for palestinians, only some of the injured allowed through in northern gaza. israel confirming its second deadly strike in as many days on a refugee camp accusing hamas of hiding a terrorist command center among the homes. our teams inside israel and gaza. also tonight, the cornell student in court accused of making online threats to kill jewish students. the chilling rise of hate across the u.s. donald trump jr. taking the stand. the first of the former president s children to testify at the fraud trial threatening the family s business empire. the showdown in the courtroom. the coldest blast of the season so far from texas to the northeast. we re tracking it. the delta pilot charged with pulling a gun in the cockpit. why authorities say he threatened to shoot the captain midflight. and the marathon man running on the road to redemption
Messages of defiance yesterday, another clear message, huge praise for the works of the Emergency Services and medical staff. Good morning its thursday, the 23rd of march. The other main headlines on the Westminster Attack this Morning Police say they believe they know the attackers identity and that he was inspired by islamist ideology. Parliament will operate as normal today in a show of defiance. The Prime Minister is expected to make a statement to the commons. We are live at westminster. Lots of Activity Still going on this morning. Lets go to carole with the weather. A wet start to the day but generally speaking and improving weather day. More detail in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. We are here in the aftermath of the Terror Attacks were five people died and a0 people injured some suffering what has been described as a catastrophic injury after a man drove a axa vehicle into the crowd and went on to stab a policeman who later died. Five people are dead, includi
News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. Worker so he had access to the planes and maintenance facilities but were watching Amateur Video of him flying this plane around and to be able to do barrel rolls into loops with a commercial airliner is pretty impressive chairmanship, at some level. Its pretty striking. When you watch the video and you realize he was a aloft for 90 minutes the fact that he was a loft for almost 90 minutes of airplane crashing and the fact that he was able to take off the airplane in the first instance would suggest he had familiarity with the Aircraft Controls and capabilities. He may well have had a lot of extra is fine a computerbased flight some later, one by in computer store. Leland you could make it seem like any cockpit you want. Ntsb as a mentioned wrapped of the press conference, an unusual investigation, no doubt, for them in terms of what they normally look at verses right
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Which was, oddly, congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultzs office in sunrise, florida. Of course she didnt send that package. The exact same return address, we should note, was used for clintons and obamas packages. Devices were also sent to democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters on capitol hill. Theyre still trying to figure out if its tied to these other incidents, as well as one sent to liberal billionaire and philanthropist george soros and to cnns headquarters where it was addressed to john brennan, former cia director. This is the device that was sent to the time warner center. As i said, it was addressed to President Obamas cia director, john brennan, a vocal critic of President Trump. Now the packages are being described as rudimentary but operative explosive devices, leading investigators to fear the intent was to kill and to kill a lot of people. No, thankfully, none of the devices went off and while we dont know the suspect or his or her or their motive, Law Enforcement inves