Holiday travel is expected to break records. More than 100 million americans traveling this weekend and that headaches are to the over yet. For some just getting to the airport turn out to be major hassle. Plenty of people crowding the terminals there as flight traffic sores. And if you didnt take off just yet, well, the weather could possibly slow you down. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im dawn timmeney. Lots of cars cruising down the highway tonight as we countdown to christmas. Tonight we have team cove covere for you. Lets begin with brad sattin who has all your traffic frustrations and delays. Heres the good news as far as air traffic today, this is the busiest air travel day and the general consensus across the country were hearing not so b bad. Air traffic travel was okay. How about the roads, were above the schuylkill expressway here. It is 11 00 oclock. Everything seems to be moving just fine. We know about 30 of us will travel 50 miles or more. We also know that gas prices a
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Rocket from launched early this morning making the nearly sixhour journey to the station. One on board was an american the other a russian and a japanese. It successfully docked with the space station 250 miles above earth. There are now six people on board including american scott kelly. Heres great creativity being shown in a couple of fields. This is piece of star wheres inspired art has been created in a rice field. It features a new robot called bb 8 as well as classic favorites c 3 po and r2d2. Thats impressive. That design might not be around for the premiere of the new film which comes out in december. Do i have a disclaimer of some kind . You know it. Disney is the Parent Company of this network. Yeah there you go. Where is the voice . Dont we have something . Im not supposed to that anymore. You should just say cue the voice. Wow. The voice took a vacation today, teej. Control room is on it. The voice took a vacation. The but the is right there. The voice took a vacation. The
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What her dpash camash cam revealed was happening when she wasnt there. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The summer of dangerous encounters between planes and threats controlled from the ground has seen one more. It happened just this afternoon. A very close call between a drone and an airliner on approach to new yorks Kennedy Airport with 159 people on board. It happened in the most critical phase of the flight the plane low, traveling around 190 Miles Per Hour setting up to land when the drone appeared just 100 feet away. Nbcs tom costello has late information. Reporter its happened again in the nations busiest air space. This time new yorks jfk airport. Just before 5 00 this afternoon delta flight 407 arriving from orlando was preparing to land when it suddenly had a very close call with an unmanned drone just 1,700 feet in the air. Delta 407. Delta 407. Yeahb a mile back the