as a bird strike sparks a fire in a plane engine how airports are trying to stop birds from causing potential air disasters. is there a future for bed bath & beyond? as the chain files for bankruptcy, what you need to know how artificial intelligence is helping the visually impaired the life-altering technology in our series a.i. revolution. and d the tributes pouring in for dance legend len goodman announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome on this monday we start with three major headlines from the media world swirling tonight that involve some of the most influential and/or provocative figures in the business starting close to home for us tonight where jeff shell, the now former ceo of nbc universal, is out, becoming the latest hollywood executive accused of sexual harassment and sex discrimination admitting he had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company that news eclipsed this morning with word embattled cnn
striking a bird, and what we are learning about this. and a prom turns into a nightmare after 19 are injured when bullets start flying. we are following these developing stories and much more as they come in right here at cnn news central. a race to get out as people are rushing to get their people out of sudan. special forces have now carried out a risky operation to get the u.s. embassy officials and families out of khartoum. this is a photo of antony blinken monitoring situation. the u.s. government is warning an estimated 16,000 americans remaining there and many of them dual citizens after a large scale operation of those who want to leave is not happening now. the u.s. is facilitating evacuations in other ways. more from the white house in a moment, but sam kiley is in djibouti where the operation began. sam, this seems like a global retreat. global retreat is the exact way to put it. here we have a french air force long distance cargo plane. that has been, we u
biden is expected to pick julie chavez rodriguez to run his campaign she s one of his top advisers and the granddaughter of labor leader cesar chavez. lester kristen, thank you. in minnesota kim potter was released from prison today. she is the former police officer who killed daunte wright two years ago, mistaking her gun for a taser. potter served just over a year after being convicted of manslaughter the 20-year-old wright was shot during a traffic stop his death set off several days of protests now to the scary engine fire on an american airlines flight sunday that forced an emergency landing. the cause, a bird strike, something airports deal with every day. here s tom costello. reporter: it happened just seconds into flight. mayday, mayday, mayday we had a bird strike and an engine failure. reporter: american 1958, columbus to phoenix, flew right into a flock of geese. the right engine engulfed in flames all of a sudden we heard somebody say fire, fire.
this out on a jog. and hear this from the pilots to the tower in columbus, declaring emergency and coming back to land. mayday, mayday, mayday. american 1958, we have had a bird strike and engine failure. american 1958, roger. can you make it back to the runway? yes, for now. and the good news is that it is really not all that significant given that 737 engines can fly fine on one, and they were able to return back to the airport without much of the incident, but with 270 people on board without incident and the bird strikes are firing up, and the reason that the airplanes are quieter and more efforts to help out the migratory birds and so it is efforts to make it so that pilots can report it easier