From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with a heartbreaking story out of oklahoma where a College Softball team trip ended in tragedy on a busy interstate. Four young women were killed after the bus they were on collided with an 18wheeler. All the victims were members of the Softball Team at North Central texas college. The youngest of those killed was 18, the oldest 20. And tonight back in texas their tightknit College Community is gripped by a profound sadness. Kerry sanders is in ardmore, oklahoma, tonight for us. Kerry, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. The womens Softball Team was about 40 miles shy of their destination when their bus was hit by a tractortrailer that crossed that wide grassy median down there here on interstate 35. The crash happened on a stretch of interstate 35 in oklahoma where the speed limit is 70 miles per hour. A tractortrailer headed north, a College Teams bus driving south
Reporter at least the passengers knew there were problems. Just really frustrated trying to get through the line. Reporter with control centers around chicago picking up the slack, about 70 of flights are getting in and out. Still more than 500 chicago Flights Canceled on sunday. The problem . The damage was so extensive to the Regional Center outside chicago when a 36yearold contractor who worked in that building sabotaged equipment, started a fire and then tried to commit suicide. One official says there is so much blood its a biohazard. Along with that, fire and water damage and cut cables. So the faa decided to build a duplicate system assembled inside the building. Building a new center will take days meaning the delays and cancellations will take two weeks. Its affecting the whole world. Traffic coming from europe and asia flying to chicago are impacted simply because they have to absorb some of the delay. Reporter one faa official described the detay lai as being similar to a ba
Carolina losing. They were all bunched up in the division. This kneeldown by tony romo will end this one. What a difference a year makes, huh, in the rivalry. Cris last year it was a complete blowout. The saints destroyed the cowboys. This is a remade cowboys team. Maybe back to the future for them as they get back to their roots and running the football. Al the cowboys win it. 3817. The volkswagen post game report coming right up. Announcer welcome to the volkswagen post game report. Here now bob costas. Cowboys go to 31. 3817 over the saints who lost all three road games and six consecutive away dating back to last year. Well give a game ball to tyron smith. He had an outstanding game at left tackle. Part of a dominant performance by the offensive line of the cowboys. Tony romo an impeccable game. Three touchdowns, to picks. Demarco murray pads the league lead in rushing. He has 534 yards through four games. Carried it 24 times for 149 yards and two scores tonight. Murray and romo ar
Driver that hit a little girl. But first we will head over to sue serio for your weather on the ones on this monday morning. Good morning. We always pick a number to sort of help you with the day. In fact i heard from somebody over the weekend who loved the the number. So heres your number, eight. We have some sunshine. It will still be warm today but there will be more clouds then sunshine at times, that is keeping us from being a nine or a ten but you with buddy, we have polo shirt on. You will make it through. Mess of the temperatures in the 60s this morning. Some in the 50s a lot of cloud cover. That is why we didnt get too chilly but all of the rain were seeing is in the central and western part of the state and not that much. Rain down in virginia we are watching this system to arrive late in the day tomorrow. Sixtyfive today. 6mile an hour wind. Sunrise time at 6 55. Less than an hour from now. 80 degrees today even with the cloud cover and tonight, were down into the mid or low
Nfl in london. A franchise far away. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Jeff its not an easy felix. The official in chicago said they have to rebuild an entire faa radar system. Air travel in this country will not be normal for days. All of this comes after a fire on friday night when a contractor tried to kill himself after setting a fire inside on facility that serves both chicagos ohare and midway airports. More than 700 flights were canceled today. We begin with transportation correspond jeff pegues. Air Traffic Controllers say the damage to the control center outside chicago is unlike anything theyve seen before. Critical communications equipment, to manage planes in the skies will have to be replaced. Its not clear how long that will take. Without this facility up and running, there will continue to be significant disruptions to air travel in the region. This is day three of delays and cancellations as they advise passengers to adjust thei